Overview

This book offers cutting-edge insights into the changing landscape of entrepreneurial finance, as digital technologies play an increasingly dynamic role in the world economy. Assessing the rapid development of innovative technologies in entrepreneurial ecosystems, it contributes to a wider discussion on the role that technology plays in facilitating and commercializing ideas in the context of global finance.   Chapters offer a systemic, comparative analysis of the interplay between financial activities and digital technologies, reflecting on the acceleration of the development of innovative technologies and alternative financing. The book includes thoughtful discussions of women entrepreneurs, crowdfunding, business angels and big data, connecting these topics to wider discussions of technology-based entrepreneurship. Offering interdisciplinary insights from a variety of entrepreneurial contexts, including startups, universities, corporations, and the public sector, contributors demonstrate the role of digital technologies in facilitating entrepreneurial ecosystems.   Bringing together state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative research on entrepreneurial ecosystems, this book offers crucial insights for academics and researchers of entrepreneurial finance looking for a better understanding of the contemporary role of digital technologies in alternative financing. Policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from the managerial implications of real-world scenarios analyzed by contributors.

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'The intellectual breadth of Audretsch, Belitski, Rejeb, and Caiazza is exemplified in this collection of papers on entrepreneurial finance and technology. The eminent scholars who contributed exhibited through their writings cutting edge insight on the integration of two important fields of study. A must read.' -- Albert N. Link, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US 'This ambitious volume draws upon a wide variety of contributions in developing a comprehensive overview of entrepreneurial finance and technology, ranging from the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities, to industry and country differences, to the role of science, to the role of financing entrepreneurial activities. Developments in Entrepreneurial Finance and Technology represents a major contribution to the field and can be warmly recommended to those who already are entrepreneurship researchers and practitioners.' -- Erik E. Lehmann, University of Augsburg, Germany

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Edited by David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, US and the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Maksim Belitski, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK, ICD Business School of Paris, France, Nada Rejeb, PSB Paris School of Business, France and Rosa Caiazza, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy

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